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Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen

Posted by kdawson on from the vote-early-and-often dept.

An anonymous reader sends in coverage from Ars Technica of Microsoft's capitulation to the EU, after European regulators requested that Redmond bundle multiple browsers on new PCs. "Microsoft has decided that the last thing it needs in this economy is some combination of the following: fines, legal bills, and a delay of Windows 7. It has offered to adopt the European Union's preferred solution for browser competition: a browser selector screen at startup."

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  1. Re:Why not OEMs? by sanosuke001 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How would having it unbundled work at all? You turn it on, no browser, then go where for the installer? getfirefox.com? with what browser? You'd have to either have another PC to download it with (most people don't) or use Windows Update to install IE anyway just to get a different browser.

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